Who Are Am You I is a series of over 60 self-
portraits exploring an intimate representation of
the human body and its existence under the
terms of a non-binary nature. The series uses
fashion tools of both digital and physical
distortion to provoke the viewer and suggest the
plurality of the self, the fluidity between
masculine and feminine, the shifting definition of
reality and its elusive importance in an always
more digitalised era.
By challenging universal truths, the main ambition of Who Are Am You I is that to encourage the normalisation of new contemporary definitions of the self, such as the non- binary identification, in which we move fluidly and freely from a form to another. The series embraces the alteration of the human body as a call for complete freedom of expression - inspired by the techniques of padding used by drag queens or any other digital form of body alteration - to contrast any imposition from a society who tends to dictate, label, simplify our fluid nature of being. For this reason, the alterations are obvious and visible.
By challenging universal truths, the main ambition of Who Are Am You I is that to encourage the normalisation of new contemporary definitions of the self, such as the non- binary identification, in which we move fluidly and freely from a form to another. The series embraces the alteration of the human body as a call for complete freedom of expression - inspired by the techniques of padding used by drag queens or any other digital form of body alteration - to contrast any imposition from a society who tends to dictate, label, simplify our fluid nature of being. For this reason, the alterations are obvious and visible.
Therefore, Who Are Am You I denounces the
millennial Western tendency to simplify the
human nature in universal terms in order to
reduce chaos and empower privileged
majorities. The power translates very easily into
violence, psychological and physical, from a
society that wants people to be one thing or
another. The same society I aim to address with
my art, aiming to anybody who struggles to
understand or accept takes of position such as
non- binarism and gender fluidity, for example.
Because, I believe, what threatens the most
about these terms is in fact the impossibility for
people to define exactly who you are. Therefore,
identifying as non- binary seems to come across
as a great, alarming way to own personal power
and freedom, since one can set and define their
own rules and privacy. Although people can
argue that there is no such thing as freedom in
society, non-binarism and fluidity seem to
suggest and ask for a great deal of liberty
instead.
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CREDITS
Photography, Styling and Creative Direction: Federico Di Mambro / IG: @federico_di_mambro
Location Assistant: James Stevens / IG: @jamess19
Designer: Messore Maria Grazia
Wardrobe: Messore Maria Grazia, Vintage
Model is Federico Di Mambro / IG: @federico_di_mambro
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FEDERICO DI MAMBRO/GODO
Midnight Call is a collaboration with fashion accessory designer Nareg Krikorian, exploring body identity in the relationship between fashion accessories and gender throughout an introspective late- night encounter.
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Midnight Call debuted online on Kaltblut Magazine. The series was also published on Mob Magazine and 6x Magazine.
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- IO LEVANTE - IO LEVANTE
Io Levante (Italian for ‘Rising Ego’) is a test shoot prior the series Nessuno and Who Are Am You I. The series is inspired by a great sense of ambivalence and analyses the coexistence of different identities in one’s mind, represented by the duality between tangible and intangible, fragile and strong, mortal and immortal, real and surreal.
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- WHO ARE AM YOU I - WHO ARE AM YOU I
Who Are Am You I is a series of over 60 self- portraits exploring an intimate representation of the human body and its existence under the terms of a non-binary nature. The series uses fashion tools of both digital and physical distortion to provoke the viewer and suggest the plurality of the self, the fluidity between masculine and feminine, the shifting definition of reality and its elusive importance in an always more digitalised era.
READ MORE HERE
Who Are Am You I has been published on the cover of Mob Journal and online on Kaltblut Magazine, Something Different Magazine and 17:23 Magazine.
The series has also been ezhibited at Victoria House, Holborn - London (UK) and at the Fashion Space Gallery,
Oxford Street, London (UK).
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- NESSUNO - NESSUNO
'NESSUNO ‑ Obsessiva Devotione' is a series of self‑portraits which explores identity in Virginia Woolf's terms of Being and Non‑being. Alternating conscious to unconscious behaviours, this is a story of obsessive devotion towards our bodies and souls, religiously performed throughout the indefinite number of actions we repeat on them every day of our lives.
